Editing Filmation (section)

== Filmography ==
{{Main|List of works produced by Filmation}}
=== Live-action shows ===
Filmation incorporated live-action into some of its animated series. Series like ''The Hardy Boys'' and ''Archie's Funhouse'' featured live-action footage of an audience watching the bands perform and ''Fat Albert'' had segments featuring series creator [[Bill Cosby]]. ''[[The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!]]'', was more of a hybrid—a live-action variety show with animated segments. Actors appeared as characters from the ''[[Hero High]]'' portion of the series, singing songs and telling jokes.

Filmation made six fully [[live-action]] series, including ''[[Space Academy]]'', its spin-off ''[[Jason of Star Command]]'', ''[[Ark II]]'', ''[[Shazam! (TV series)|Shazam!]]'' (based on the [[DC Comics]] character [[Captain Marvel (DC Comics)|Captain Marvel]]), ''[[The Ghost Busters]]'' and ''[[The Secrets of Isis]]''.

==== ''The Ghost Busters'' ====
Filmation produced a live-action series called ''[[The Ghost Busters]]'' (1975), starring former ''[[F Troop]]'' stars [[Larry Storch]] and [[Forrest Tucker]], with noted science-fiction fan and collector [[Bob Burns III|Bob Burns]] as "Tracy the Gorilla".<ref name="fls750512"/> The characters worked as paranormal investigators, working for an unseen "Chief" named "Zero" who delivered their "Ghost Busting Assignments" in whimsical disguised recording devices as in ''[[Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]''.

Nine years later, [[Columbia Pictures]], who produced an unrelated 1984 movie of [[Ghostbusters|almost the same name]], had to obtain the rights to the title from the company. Filmation capitalized on the popularity of the film by producing [[Ghostbusters (1986 TV series)|a new cartoon]] based on their earlier series. Like its other shows, it used stock footage heavily; in one episode, character designs and animation sequences were recycled from the ''[[Groovie Goolies]]'' series of nearly 15 years earlier.

To avoid confusion, the animated series based on the film was called ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]''. As a dig on the Filmation series, an episode was written about a group of fraudulent ghost fighters, trying to steal the "Real" Ghostbusters' business and thunder.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=5561|title=Interview: Lou Scheimer: A Candid Conversation with Filmation's Founder|last=Carter|first=R.J.|date=2007-06-11|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120525111532/http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=5561|archive-date=2012-05-25|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==== Looney Tunes/Groovie Goolies crossover ====
Also of note is ''[[Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies]]'', a special featuring several of [[Warner Bros.]]' ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' stars (except [[Bugs Bunny]]) paired with Filmation's own ''[[Groovie Goolies]]'', a group of classic monsters. Directed by Sutherland and written by [[Len Janson]] and [[Chuck Menville]], it aired on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] as part of ''[[The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie]]'' on December 16, [[1972 in television|1972]]. While most of the Warner Bros. characters were drawn well (veteran Warners animator [[Virgil Ross]] was working there at the time, along with other animators that had worked for Warner Bros. Animation in the late 1960s, such as [[Laverne Harding]] and [[Ed Solomon]]), and were voiced by veteran voice actor [[Mel Blanc]], the special is not liked by many fans of classic Warner Bros. animation because of its limited animation, as well as a weak storyline.

This was not Filmation's last dalliance with classic cartoon characters; in the late 1970s the company produced new series based on the characters from the [[Terrytoons]] archive ([[Mighty Mouse]] and [[Heckle and Jeckle]], titled ''[[The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle]]'') and a new ''[[The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show|Tom and Jerry]]'' series as well.

=== Feature films ===
Filmation also ventured into the feature film business. With their success in television firmly established by 1970, the company became profitable enough to return to the shelved ''Journey Back to Oz'' project, completing the animation and some minor voiceover work begun in 1962, and finished the film in 1971. It would take another year for ''Journey'' to be released theatrically in the United Kingdom, two more years before its 1974 U.S. release, and yet another two (1976) before it finally found its audience in network television, the very medium in which Filmation became successful. There, the film was expanded with live-action segments featuring [[Bill Cosby]], who was in the midst of his success with the studio's ''[[Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids]]''.

A deal with Warner Bros. yielded ''[[Treasure Island (1973 film)|Treasure Island]]'' and ''[[Oliver Twist (1974 film)|Oliver Twist]]'', but left several others unproduced.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Scheimer|first1=Lou|title=Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation|pages=82, 93, 113|year=2012|location=Raleigh, North Carolina|publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing|isbn=978-1-60549-044-1|last2=Mangels|first2=Andy}}<!--|access-date=2013-02-11--></ref>

In its final years, Filmation produced feature films of its ''He-Man'' and ''She-Ra'' franchises (''[[The Secret of the Sword]]''), as well as continuations to established stories, such as ''[[Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night]]'' (1987) and ''[[Happily Ever After (1989 film)|Happily Ever After]]'' (1989; unreleased until 1993).<ref>{{cite news|title=Pinocchio Legend Grows New Animated Film Isn't A Sequel But A Continuation |newspaper=[[The Morning Call|Morning Call]] |url=https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1987-12-26-2596981-story.html |access-date=2010-12-12}}</ref> In 1986, Omega Entertainment inked a worldwide television pact with Filmation in order to distribute the company's non-animated products, such as theatrical feature films, for worldwide TV distribution.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Silverman|first=Marie Saxon|date=1986-03-05|title=4 Live-Action Pics by Omega Handled Via Filmation Pact|page=6|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> Also that year, on October 22, Filmation is beginning to serve as representative for three animated films at the MIFED, in order to cleaning up unsold territories on various Filmation productions, which accordingly hit by a lawsuit from [[The Walt Disney Company]] back in 1985 in order to prevent making films that the company claims to be based on Disney classics.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Silverman|first=Marie Saxon|date=1986-10-22|title=Filmation Repping Three Of Its Own Animated Projects|pages=66, 181|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>